Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:14:59 +0400 From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@core.310.ru> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: journaling fs and large mailbox format Message-ID: <20050929171459.GA11654@core.310.ru> In-Reply-To: <433B3F41.8060004@spintech.ro> References: <433B3F41.8060004@spintech.ro>
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On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 04:11:29AM +0300, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: > Dear Hackers, > > First of all thank you for your time and attention. > > I am in the position to implement a large-scale mail server and I > will never go for anything else but FreeBSD (fixation?). > > It should be able to handle graceously 4000 e-mail accounts where a > minimum of 50 Mb/mailbox would be a requirement. In the begining, it is > desirable that users could use as much free space as available, so this > implies some gigabytes/mailbox. > > I don't know if the mbox format can handle this, and I know Maildir > cannot handle this on UFS2 standard install, no matter of soft-updates. > (because it exhaustes the free nodes) So I currently have no solution > for this stuff. > > I was wondering what is the status of Journaling File Systems on > FreeBSD? Any which is usable and mature, with write access? XFS would > fit amazingly well with Maildir, but.. I doubt it's anything else but > readonly. > > So any suggestion would really help a lot. Thank's in advance. > > > Yours Sincerely, > -- > Alin-Adrian Anton > GPG keyID 0x183087BA (B129 E8F4 7B34 15A9 0785 2F7C 5823 ABA0 1830 87BA) > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x183087BA > > "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire > Consider to use DBMS storage as alternative. IMHO, this is more flexible solution, especially if you have a lot of disk space. Also you will be able to buil a mail cluster to scale your solution.
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